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This is the largest and most diverse group of fishes. Main traits, which may however be absent in some species, are are the bony skeleton, swim bladder, and highly derived skeleton of the …

Read more on the position of Scaridae - parrotfishes (July 2023). Differences between FishBase and Eschmeyer’s Catalog of Fishes (ECoF).

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Table 1: 189 species currently present in the country/island (endemic, native, introduced, reintroduced); Table 2: 3 species possibly present in the country/island (stray, questionable); …

Table 1: 176 species currently present in the country/island (endemic, native, introduced, reintroduced); Table 2: 0 species possibly present in the country/island (stray, questionable); …